I didn't want to write another artists beware journal, however I'm doing this because just a few hours after I posted my Ryan Hill journal in July, I had another toxic ex-friend come back to me pretending to be apologetic about their past behavior. I discussed this with a different friend and they suggested I should write about this individual also. After mulling it over for a few months, I decided it's time I talked about my experiences with another commissioner to beware of, RavorKlaw aka HalfShellHero/Halfshell the turtle/Sabaka the Husky/ExperimentStitch. He's is no where as bad as Ryan Hill, but Ravor was still very unpleasant to deal with for several years and is someone I would advise furries to avoid.

Ravor first contacted me for commissions around 2012 if I remember correctly, and then later we added each other onto Skype. Usually he would ask for outie belly button inflation art with his leopard fursona or my dog character Pepper, but he'd ask for the outies to be so large that the characters themselves would be really small. To be honest, I didn't like doing these types of commissions because drawing huge circular outies with little detail wasn't very challenging, but it's what Ravor wanted and to his credit, he always paid and never scammed me the way Ryan Hill did. So for any watchers who associate my art with gigantic inflated outies, please know that inflated outies aren't what I'm into. Those drawings were Ravor's ideas, not my own. Ravor seemed friendly at first but over time, he started to display strange mood swings. One day he suddenly said he was cutting ties with me for no explanation. I don't know what I did to make him upset, and it made me sad that he no longer wanted to talk to me. But then after some time he messaged me on Skype again and apologized, and I felt very relieved. Things seemed to be back to normal for a while, but then he would do it again and again, suddenly saying he didn't want to talk to me anymore, and then apologizing and being friendly again. I eventually learned I wasn't the only person Ravor treated this way. One time Ravor commissioned me to do a drawing of ChrisElFox, but then a few days later suddenly changed his mind and told me he cut ties with Chris before I finished the drawing. A friend of mine on fA also once wrote a journal describing how someone was treating them poorly online and the behavior he described sounded very similar to how Ravor also treated me. I asked this friend if he was talking about Ravor, and he said yes. One day when Ravor was having another one of his mood swings and said he might cut ties from me again, I finally decided to ask him why he did this constantly. Ravor's answer was that he was trying to get my attention. This answer didn't make much sense to me. The both of us often talked about our interests in furry art and video games, so I'm not sure how I failed to give Ravor enough attention. Ravor's cycle of cutting ties and then coming back and being apologetic got very tiresome. On some occasions when Ravor was more apologetic and asked me if I was mad at him, I'd try to explain why I found his mood swings aggravating but it was to no avail. No matter how much Ravor said he was sorry and that he would do better, he kept falling into the same pattern and saying he wanted to cut me off for no discernible reason. Eventually I got fed up with how disrespectful and rude Ravor was to me and I blocked him on Skype. Since the last commission I did for Ravor was in 2016, I probably stopped talking to him completely around 2016-17. I haven't used skype in ages so I don't remember the exact time. On a few occasions I'd see Ravor try to re-follow me on fA or Twitter with new accounts he made, but I'd block him shortly afterward. So for about 4-5 years, the both of us didn't talk to each other until suddenly, I heard from Ravor again.

Fast forward to this July a few hours after I posted my journal about Ryan Hill, I saw that Ravor had DMed me on Twitter. I guess I either unblocked him and forgot, or Ravor was using a new account not on my block list. I thought it was suspicious Ravor would DM me so soon after I posted the Ryan Hill journal, so rather than block Ravor again, I decided to reply and see what he would say. The next day he got back to me saying he wanted to "rebuild a bridge," and I asked him why he wanted to apologize to me now. Ravor's answer was that he wanted to get another commission of my character Pepper. I didn't appreciate this answer because it sounded like he was only apologizing so he could get something from me. I suspected Ravor was being apologetic to me now because he saw the Ryan Hill journal and was afraid I might write a similar journal about him. I carefully didn't mention Ryan Hill to Ravor in any of my replies, to see if Ravor would admit on his own that he had seen that journal. Ravor never mentioned the journal in our discussion, and the longer the both of us exchanged DMs, he started his usual emotion manipulation and guilt tripping tactics again. When I made clear that I'd prefer we just go our own separate ways rather than do another commission, Ravor over-dramatically asked if that meant we would pretend we never knew each other, even if we saw one another at a furry convention. Ravor also made a request that I take down all the commissions I've done for him, as part of acting like we never knew each other. Normally I don't like to delete artwork because I don't like to erase my past. And I have a feeling Ravor might have made this request either to spite me or to cover up his tracks of which artists he had mistreated. Despite my reservations, I've decided to honor this request and delete my commissions with Ravor's character. Those honestly weren't commissions I liked drawing, and despite the many views and favorites these drawings got over the years, I don't want furries looking thru my gallery mistakenly thinking Ravor and I are still friends or try to befriend Ravor themselves.

At the end of our twitter conversation, Ravor said goodbye and that I would never hear from him again. But I'm not sure if Ravor will keep that promise, since responding to me so quickly after I posted the Ryan Hill journal indicates to me that he was probably silently watching my profile during the 4-5 year gap we hadn't talked to each other. If you're still reading my journals Ravor, just know that you brought this on yourself. Until you tried to contact me again in July, I hadn't considered writing a public warning about you. I think it's very obvious you saw my journal about Ryan Hill and got scared I might do the same about you. If you had been honest with me and just admitted the Ryan Hill journal scared you, I probably wouldn't have written this. But instead you pretended to say you were only interested in another commission, like you were trying to bribe me to be nice to you. And the way you continued to try to guilt trip me shows me you haven't changed at all. It makes me question if you really wanted to be my friend, or you just wanted to use me to draw whatever inflation fantasies you had. Unlike Ryan Hill, I have never met Ravor in person, so I don't know if he's actually struggling with anxiety or a mental condition, or if he is just a toxic person who craves attention and enjoys messing with other people's emotions. All I do know is none of the other friends I have online have ever treated me the way Ravor has, and I don't want other furries to befriend Ravor and be subjected to the same gymnastics I had to deal with. I'll give Ravor similar advice to what I gave to Ryan Hill; step away from the fandom and get professional help. You don't maintain friendships by shutting people out for no reason or because you "want attention." It's selfish and makes a friendship very unstable, like I have to walk on eggshells because I'm unsure if the littlest inconvenience could set the other person off. I tried to be kind to Ravor and I probably gave him way more chances than I should have, but he didn't return that kindness. Being a drama queen was more important to him than being a friend. And please remember, DO NOT harass Ravor back. It's best to just block and ignore him if he tries to follow you on twitter or fA. Dealing with him and his random outbursts isn't worth the time of your day. I tried to get the truth out of him last July, however that conversation didn't amount to much and Ravor just used the opportunity to play his usual manipulation games.

Oh and speaking of Ryan Hill, I'll give another quick update on him since he decided to harass me again while I was in the middle of typing my warning about Ravor. On Sep 25th, Ryan DM'ed me on Twitter from an account called Sparks_Kyrubui and made weirdly spiritual, violent threats against Further Confusion. He sent a similar threatening message to me on Facebook too. I searched his twitter name on fA out of curiosity and found his newest sock account, Sativa_The_Y2K_Sparkle_Bear. I have informed Further Confusion of Ryan's threats, and notified fA to ban him again. I'm also flagging one of his you tube accounts for posting a video where he pees thru his fursuit on camera. It reminded me a lot of the unsolicited peeing video he once sent me years ago. Ryan did not listen to my advice to get professional help and is continuing to mentally deteriorate. If he tries to attack FC'22, I predict the only damage he'll do is pissing all over the hotel floor as he gets arrested again.